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The Oxford Illustrated Histories are a series of single-volume history books written by experts and published by the Oxford University Press. [1] According to Hew Strachan , its intended readership is the 'intelligent general reader' rather than the research student.
The Cambdrige Illustrated History of the World's Science. ISBN 0-521-25844-8 . The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine was reissued without illustrations as The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006), which contains a new section in the last chapter. [ 4 ]
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is a 2015 non-fiction book written by English historian Peter Frankopan, a historian at the University of Oxford. A new abridged edition was illustrated by Neil Packer. [1] The full text is divided into 25 chapters. The author combines the development of the world with the Silk Road.
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
History of the World in 1,000 Objects; History of the World Map by Map; History: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Present Day; History Year by Year; Home Design Workbooks; Hot Bikes; How to Train A Superdog; How to Train a Superpup; Human; Human Anatomy; Illustrated History of Travel, Journey; Illustrated History of Everything You Eat, Food
Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Car [13] [14] Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II (published in U.K. as: The Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II); later retitled as: Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century; Ballantine Walden Edition [15] [16] Beagle Books; Comstock Editions [17] Mockingbird ...
The Times Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published by Times Books Limited, then a subsidiary of Times Newspapers Ltd and later a branch of Collins Bartholomew, which is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, and which in the latest editions has changed names to become The Times Complete History of the World. The first two editions ...
The Cartoon History of the Universe is a book series about the history of the world. It is written and illustrated by American cartoonist, professor, and mathematician Larry Gonick, who started the project in 1978. [1] Each book in the series explains a period of world history in a loosely chronological order. They draw upon evolutionary ...